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Millom Good Enough Start

Supporting parent-infant mental health in Millom and surrounding villages.

Wellbeing

Good Enough Start is a multi-agency partnership working with children and young people in the Millom area, comprising of; Partnership of Millom Schools, Howgill, NHS Health Visitor Service, Midwifery, School Nurse commissioned by Millom area schools, Strengthening Families Nurse and private childcare providers.

The partnership provides local community perinatal and infant attachment care by delivering a pioneering preventative services to transform the life chances for future newborns.

The service focuses on providing support to overcome anything that might get in the way of a primary caregiver feeling unable to build a close parent-infant connection. This may include:

  • A caregiver struggling to emotionally connect to their child
  • A caregiver suffering from an illness or life changing event
  • A caregiver struggling with addiction or other challenges.

Sellafield Investment

£57,450

Timeline

  • Start of funding for support for services

  • End of funding for support for services

Outcome

The project aims to:

  • Provide 240-300 parents with attachment information (dependant on number of births)
  • Give integrated support to address attachment risk factors to 90 families
  • Give specialist intervention to 90 ‘at risk’ infants
  • Give specialised intervention support to 90-180 adults.

Delivered in partnership with